Are Weebly blogs indexed?

I scraped a few expired Weebly blogs to use for backlinking purposes but it looks like you have to upgrade to turn indexing on. If that's the case then free Weebly blogs have no SEO value at all. Can anyone confirm this?

Being one of the top expired Weebly sellers in the past, I can say that free Weebly blogs are now almost "completely closed" to indexing unless you go for a paid upgrade. It started around a month or so back when my first customers started mentioning me that they were facing problems in a few of the blogs. Then, it became the norm gradually and almost no Weebly blog or website had the search engine indexing option free by default. All had to opt for a paid upgrade in order to be indexed. Weebly will lose a lot of customers now. They were probably the second most popular Web 2.0 (with website/blog creation option) after Tumblr but now, I doubt they might almost see no new customers. Nobody would like to create a website, blog or shop and not to be found in search engines by default. On the other side, their revenues might go up marginally though I highly doubt it as the old blogs are still indexed and working fine.

LOL. I was/am the top Weebly seller on Fiverr but have nearly stopped my gig for the last few weeks so that my customers do not lose money. These are not my sale though as I cannot recognize any of them. I am still the top (or probably the second most popular) expired tumblr seller. I would still recommend tumblr a those are working fine though PA was decreased by Moz in the last month or so.

Weebly is a "do not touch" Web 2.0 platform for the moment unless they change the rules once again. It is kind of sad as I had found very high quality and powerful Weebly (some with even Time, CNN, WashingtonPost etc.) in the past and the links were quite powerful at times. Weebly also used to be in the Google index for far longer time compared to Tumblr etc. They were regarded by search engines as proper websites rather than a Web 2.0 or a blogging platform from what I had noticed in the past.

That sounds strange, but i have done Weebly one year ago. It does be indexed by search engine, and many people visit my website. Am I wrong?

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The old ones are working fine. The new Weebly rules only apply to new blogs. I also have tons of Weebly already created in the past and they work fine. Their new rules (of free Weebly blogs/websites blocked from search engines) only applies to new blogs and is not retroactive.

The old ones are working fine. The new Weebly rules only apply to new blogs. I also have tons of Weebly already created in the past and they work fine. Their new rules (of free Weebly blogs/websites blocked from search engines) only applies to new blogs and is not retroactive.

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:lmao: well FUCK! So what the expired ones I posted above would have been good to go? Consider it a freebie then

:lmao: well FUCK! So what the expired ones I posted above would have been good to go? Consider it a freebie then

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No, those are not created/built still. It does not depend whether it is expired or not. Any freshly created free Weebly has to go for a paid upgrade in order to be indexed by search engines. Anything created say 1-2 ago or prior to that and which were published and live before the new rules will work well from what I have noticed.

No, those are not created/built still. It does not depend whether it is expired or not. Any freshly created free Weebly has to go for a paid upgrade in order to be indexed by search engines. Anything created say 1-2 ago or prior to that and which were published and live before the new rules will work well from what I have noticed.

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Alright. So they are useless then. Thanks for clearing that up. Weebly is a no go then.

Got the idea from a member here actually. He recommended to use about 10 expired PA 30+ Tumblr blogs along with a few weeblys to easily rank for low comp keywords.

Could it be that the indexing of free Weebly's is now dependent on some other metric, such as the amount of content you have on the site or the age? That is, Weebly will allow the site to be indexed once it passes a certain number of words/pages or once the site has been registered for at least N months?

Could it be that the indexing of free Weebly's is now dependent on some other metric, such as the amount of content you have on the site or the age? That is, Weebly will allow the site to be indexed once it passes a certain number of words/pages or once the site has been registered for at least N months?

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No, they introduced a paid option to remove the search engines block in robots.txt. This is a way for them to make money. It can also be seen as a way for them to dissuade spammers and poor quality blogs.

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